Editorial - 8/27/12

The Federal
Environmental Protection Agency's job should be to police air and water quality,
fairly enforce realistic regulations, based on valid science, and mandate
corrections. But rather than regulate
for the good of the nation, this EPA answers to the few. Held firm on the leash of the Administration and
its radical-environmental political-partners, this EPA's mission seems to be imposing
endless, new, over-reaching, punitive regulations, knowingly-strangling energy
production and manufacturing growth, while forcing staggering private-sector
compliance-costs, making planned economic success impossible, and further job
losses inevitable.

Lately, at last, some federal-court
rulings have gone against the EPA's suffocating regulations, halting, but
briefly, the agency's unrelenting politically-driven, anti-business blitzkrieg. The most recent smack-down, involved
Fed-despised, coal-fired power plants, leading the DC Circuit to admonish the
EPA for (quote) "exceeding its statutory authority." Termed "transgressing the boundaries," in another case.
This EPA prefers to create its own rules. As such, another hot, steaming load of
punitive dictates awaits, but purposely
held, until after the election. In November, the reign of this malicious,
private-business-devouring juggernaut, must come to an end.